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Publisher:
Penguin Books

656 pages

Product Description

<div> <b>The publishing phenomenon topping bestseller lists around the world</b><br> <br> <b>The great thriller that everyone has been waiting for since the Millennium Trilogy of Stieg Larsson.” <i>El Cultural de El Mundo </i>(Spain)</b><br> <br> August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.<br> <br> Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country’s most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer’s block as his publisher’s deadline looms. But Marcus’s plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellerganwhom, he admits, he had an affair with. As the national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation, following a trail of clues through his mentor’s books, the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset’s citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his own writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a book to save someone’s life?<br> <br> A chart-topping worldwide phenomenon, with sales approaching a million copies in France alone and rights sold in more than thirty countries, <i>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair</i> is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.</div>

Publisher:
Penguin Books

656 pages

Amazon.com Review

<p><strong>An Amazon Best Book of the Month, May 2014:</strong> A successful young author suffering from writer’s block journeys to New Hampshire to visit his former professor. Shortly after he arrives, the bones of a girl are found buried in the professor’s backyard. Now the professor has been arrested for the murder of the girl--who disappeared in 1975 at the age of fifteen--and the author has an idea: he will write a book based on the case that will ultimately exonerate his professor and jumpstart his writing. Already a massive best seller in Europe (and translated into 32 languages), <em>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair</em> arrives in North America amid such wild praise you might expect something groundbreaking. Instead, what you get is a wonderful, fun, and boisterous read, a book with an uncanny ability to both fascinate and amuse you. Twists and turns and oddball characters make this a rollicking bullet-train of a novel. <em>--Chris Schluep</em></p>